George Takei on Life Inside a Japanese Internment Camp During WWII

- Legendary actor, author and activist, George Takei, best known for
playing Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, appears on Democracy Now! for an
extended interview.

In this excerpt, he talks about his role as World
War II veteran Sam Kimura in "Allegiance: A New American Musical." The
musical tells the story of a Japanese-American family who is relocated
from their farm after the attack on Pearl Harbor and placed in an
internment camp in Wyoming.

This parallels part of Takei's own family
history.

At the age of five, his family was shipped to a
Japanese-American internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas.*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------